Impact
The first quarter of the eyeroll might be devoted to the idea that numbers — number of people attending a service, number of people viewing a service online, number of people participating in mission work, number of people being served by mission work — that …
Binding the straw man
When asked why he would not pick up his pen, Thomas reputedly replied, "All that I have written seems like straw to me." He died six months later. His magnum opus remains unfinished.
How I learned to quit worrying and love an apocalypse
I want to put the idea out there that maybe apocalypses are more common than we imagine and only suck in direct proportion to our level of resistance. Also, here's a playlist.
You’re gonna carry that weight
It's an odd bit of trivia that Asheville, so often characterized as a progressive bastion in its region, relegates celebrations of the LGBTQ community to October when most of the country holds those celebrations in June. The Stonewall Riots occurred in June, so the month …
They’re all bold as love
When Mary was pulled to the point of breaking by seven devils going seven different directions, Christ's love had provided an axis by which her spirit could be aligned. And now what? Going back to being torn apart is not an option.
I’m packing you in like I said
How do any of us let go of old patterns that once served a purpose but now only bring grief? It might be that the process of letting go killed Jesus, or perhaps he had to die in order to let it happen. The relationship …
There always was a man to blame
Blaming God has a history much longer than diss tracks, of course, although not quite as long as men blaming women. And we don't seem to get tired of it.
I told you I was trouble
This is not an invasion of Peter's privacy, it is a sharing of intimacy. It's a statement that says we are welcomed to be in relationship with this one who exceeds all of our understanding. Like Peter, I imagine that I would be likely to …
It breaks my heart
Then again, you may not want to hear it from Judas anymore. It's too heartbreaking, as is the truth that, late at night, at the end of the road, Judas probably wishes he hadn't destroyed the one thing that gave him hope.
He don’t know what it means to love someone.
This may sound like I have constructed an insufferable Hipster Jesus who was into Passover before it was cool. And yeah, maybe a little bit, but I think there's something more to it. I'm suggesting that maybe Jesus didn't want to be famous for simply …
But listen to the color of your dreams
In those moments when she was sitting at his feet, not helping her sister Martha in the kitchen like she should have, Mary has seen Jesus and all of his story fully and completely. And she is in awe.
Born down in a dead man’s town
If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Master needs it and will send it back here immediately.’”